Inpatient dental consultations at a pediatric hospital: A single center 1‐year review

Autor: Shervin S. Churchill, Kyler B Hayes, Bryan J. Williams, Barbara Sheller
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Spec Care Dentist
ISSN: 1754-4505
0275-1879
Popis: AIMS Inpatient dental consultations done at a pediatric hospital in 2017 were analyzed to determine consult reasons, requesting departments, and patient characteristics. Findings were compared to a 2007 study from the hospital. METHODS AND RESULTS Data were collected from medical records. Descriptive statistics and logistic regressions were calculated. In 2017, 300 consults were performed for 211 patients (1.8% of inpatients). hematology-oncology requested the most consults (63%). Evaluation prior to cancer treatment, cardiac surgery, or organ transplantation was the most common reason for consult requests (52%). Fifty-eight percent patients had a dental home; older patients were more likely to have a dental home (P
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